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We want to convince people that we are smart. AI is just a tool for that. Problem is that smart people use AI smartly, non smart people not so smartly. Here you want to ask non smart people to be smart. Fun times :)

The right side version has extracted functions from an arguably worrisome implementation on the left, then someone inlined it and left comments to explain the purpose of ?some lines? of upcoming code. Author wants to optimize readability, Carmack and others want to reduce complexity by eliminating local optima introduced by abstractions. Other people want to make a fashion style out of it. I’m thinking: how does oven work? Does it mutate the parameter, is it heating up at a constant pace? If oven mutates pizza why not the Box methods? Also if inline person likes inline why they don’t inline Box and Oven. Because they are called from some other places? Why not inline those as well? So many questions to ask. I’m not sure this is a clear win for either styles. Maybe we should ask chatgpt :)

You are both right and need to take a break :)

Optimizing team efficiency is a team effort. It is a false dichotomy that you either work on “important project with deadline” or do mentoring. There are deeper structural problems that you need to solve first imo.

Why do you say red flag? It is an exaggeration, of course, nothing is purely 1 hour. Rather it is 1 hour work in flow state, which is about 2 pomodoros, which is about 6 bulletpoints, which is about 1/4 of a day’s programming effort. Just about right for a 1 point card by a senior who only sit down to code when they kinda exactly know what to write

There is a short mention of “refactoring” and how it is a bad name, I’m not sure why, just read the article in 3mins. TL;DR: start with the complex things, deduplicate code and use proper data structures once you have working code with multiple use cases.

Research seems to prove that psychedelics can be a tool for opening up the so called critical periods. Critical periods are, in my understanding, the highly receptive periods of learning - brain wiring and rewiring. Childhood is abundant in these periods, but they open up in adulthood naturally after trauma, e.g. stroke as high plasticity periods, which go away quickly and possibly are too short. Totally subjective take: future result might be able to explain /why/ psychedelics have profound effect. Interestingly the life-changing traumatic experiences have similar effect, creating these critical periods - body responds to extreme conditions with risky high brain plasticity periods.

ChatGPT: I know link-fu!

The really sad part is that LLMs are eating up the knowledge and give nothing back.

TL;DR: I plan and it helps me.

When I'm working in IC mode:

- I plan for the next day at the end of the day (org-mode).

- If I'm working on planned tasks (programming, demoing, documentation, etc.) I tick checkboxes. These tasks are usually small enough to do in 1-2 hours.

- I also tick checkboxes for must do things e.g. when on call.

I'm sceptical about planning and working on a bunch of things without putting them down.

So if solve a problem you can’t retrace the thought process? I mean do you not take notes or scribble?

I’m interested in why a human would want a more intelligent entity to exist, especially an entity trained on human thought patterns. Or you just say that you know that humanity will be enslaved by non-biologicals? You talk about exceptionalism, in the derogatory, but it was quite true that humanity once? could have been a benevolent leader of Earth or even the Solar system and beyond and now it seems a non-biological will be the ruler, which for me is just a shadow of the biological who created it, and misses the point from the human standpoint.

It can be shut down.

Interesting! I’d love to see an analysis of the rewrite

I wear “barefoot style” sandals throughout the year. Winters are OK here with the occasional dip below freezing. I carry woolen socks as emergency measure. Picking size is easy, you only need to measure the sole area. If you go a bit above in size it is possible to cut down from the sole with scissors.

This style of footwear makes my life a lot simpler.

I’m happy if a junior programmer knows when they should ask questions. In my experience a “senior” with ego problems can dig a year deep rabbit hole for the whole team in a matter of months.

I think we have different understanding on: What a bootcamp is (length, scope, model) What traits a junior developer should have (lot of non-tech stuff) What a person can reasonable learn outside of a job (there is a limit)

What I think is reasonable to teach in a one year full-time coding program is the ability to learn programming. There are some “secret components” also to make the learning experience smoother/faster, but these are “just” constant optimizations.

Thanks for sharing your story!

I mentored people at a coding bootcamp in Europe, there were some students with unrealistic expectations. Sharing real-life programmer careers help to stay grounded.

Coding is a job, like the other kinds of jobs. It is sometimes closer to craftsmanship than engineering. Maybe we won’t change the world, but arguably we might change it to the worse anyways :-)

I recommend watching the film Paterson, with Adam Driver (a bus driver in the film)

Fake it till you make it?

unless you're Dutch

So you will try to find least tolerable branch of programming to have the most fun. I love it!

1. watch out for your mental health 2. learn about time management 3. give yourself time to learn new things and experiment with them, it should be joyful experience

Good luck

Is this article about defining a term independent-minded which is strongly related to curious and a lot more talk about some aspects of the life and ideas of an independent-minded nerd?

How aesthetics make it unusable?

On the contrary. Who are young still work through the night. If work keeps you up it means that you can’t make trade-offs quite well enough.

I see the pattern there. I’m from Europe but worked with US management. They came with previous titles, and with good understanding on the importance of self marketing even after hired. All their focus was on delivering the low hanging fruits after that only smoke&mirrors. Then after getting C level position they were fired, and started at another company at an elevated position. I’m not saying this is bad, but not something I would call a stellar career. It elevates people on a ladder but but not in a way Children dream of...

why the bash hate? I thought it was really uncommon for any unixlike os to come without bash (sh symlinked to bash)

How do you eat as fast as possible? Without chewing solids or not eating solids?

I love to write under time pressure, somehow it removes the shackles of procrastination. Just like a drug can remove the brakes of conventional thinking. It is so nice if we remember that we have nothing to lose...